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Author: Tom Stevenson
Publisher: DK ADULT
Category: Book

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Media: Hardcover
Edition: 4
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 664
Shipping Weight (lbs): 5.6
Dimensions (in): 11 x 8.3 x 1.7

ISBN: 0756631645
Dewey Decimal Number: 641.2203
EAN: 9780756631642
ASIN: 0756631645

Publication Date: November 19, 2007
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Editorial Reviews:

Amazon.com Review
If you want to learn about wines of the world and advance your comprehension of wine production, grape varieties, appellations, and individual wineries, understand the factors (such as location, soil, climate, and methods of viticulture) that affect the taste and nose, and visit your wine shop with a list of quality wines to explore, Tom Stevenson is the man to read. Author of 12 books (including IChampagne/I and IThe Millennium Champagne Sparkling Wine Guide/I), three-time winner of the Wine Writer of the Year award, and columnist for IWine/I magazine, Stevenson has the gift of taking vast quantities of knowledge and experience and translating them into lucid, sparkling prose, easily graspable by the novice, yet still interesting and instructive to the connoisseur.p Arranged geographically, with nearly 100 maps, profiles on top producers, and valuable Author's Choice charts for each region, the IWine Encyclopedia/I covers the wines of Europe (from Great Britain and Switzerland to Southeast Europe, Greece, and the Levant), as well as wines from North and South Africa, North and South America, Australia, New Zealand, and Asia. In addition, there's a guide to wine and food (pairing ifois gras/i with a Champagne or Sauterne, for example, and claret or Cabernet Sauvignon with beef), a guide to wine flavors (making sense of descriptors such as fig, gooseberry, violet, and hay), a list of good vintages, and a glossary of tasting and technical terms, distinguishing "cheesy" and "chewy" from "creamy" and "corked." Enhanced by beautiful pictures of vineyards, wine labels, and Stevenson himself demonstrating the art of wine tasting, from examining and nosing the wine to spitting it out, this a visually beautiful as well as an informative volume. As sumptuous as an elegant Tuscan Barolo, as rewarding as a Sarget de Gruaud-Larose from Bordeaux, as pleasing as a Ferreira port, the ISotheby Wine Encyclopedia/I is a remarkable tome of oenological erudition. I--Stephanie Gold/I

Product Description
The essential insider's guide to every major wine-growing region in the world, this book offers dozens of helpful Top 10 lists covering a broad range of topics, including Best-Value Producers, Greatest-Quality Wines, and Most Exciting or Unusual Finds. The book is a must for every wine serious enthusiast who wants to keep up with the constantly changing and ever-expanding world of wine. AUTHOR BIO: Tom Stevenson has been writing about wine for nearly thirty years and is the author of more than 20 books. He's been nominated Wine Writer of the Year on three occasions and received the coveted Wine Literary Award, America's lifetime achievement award for wine writing.

Customer Reviews: Read 26 more reviews...

5 out of 5 stars

Very informative January 6, 2009
I purchased this book as a Christmas gift for my son who is a winemaker in Napa. He was thrilled with it and spent much of his time at home with us reading it. I was extremely happy with my purchase. Also, it was much less expensive than the bookshops I visited.

5 out of 5 stars

WOW, really surprised..... October 29, 2008
I was pleasantly surprised at how in depth yet very easy to read this encyclopedia is. I was a little hesitant at first, but now I'm really glad that I made this purchase!

3 out of 5 stars

Great reference book, but not a practical book October 16, 2008
I've learned a lot about wine from reading this massive tome. The different types of grapes, how to 'taste' wine like a pro, the dozens of different wine-growing areas in France and California (most other countries/states are dealt with in far less detail.) How to invest in wine and how to store it. br / br /As a practical guide to selecting/buying wine, this wasn't quite what I was looking for. Far too big to cart to the liquor store, it's of no help when standing in front of a shelf of wine, trying to decide which bottle to buy. All you can do is painstakingly copy down the names/vintages on the shelf, go home, consult the book, and try to determine which, if any, are recommended. (The reverse -- jotting down a list of a dozen recommended wines doesn't work, since the odds of ANY of them being on the shelf is pretty low. I'm sure that the vast majority of European/South American/Australian wines in the book aren't available at ANY liquor store in America.) Prices aren't even hinted at, except rarely when he mentions that a wine is 'affordable' or 'luxurious.'

5 out of 5 stars

Sothebys wine encyclopedia October 3, 2008
Great book, with a wealth of usefull information. This is my go to, when I nead precise info.

5 out of 5 stars

Best Appellation book around May 14, 2008
This is the third edition of this book I have purchased. It only gets better and better.br /br /For information regarding appellations, grapes, and wine in general, I prefer this as my number one book.

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